Oct 07, 2004 02:35 AM
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(Updated Oct 07, 2004 02:35 AM)
Guys? you need to watch this Hollywood slick flick with gripping story and riveting story telling...''THE DA VINCI CODE''...
Close your room for the next couple of days and submit yourself to one of the most action gripped and satisfying trip with DAN BROWN at its best..
The last review I wrote was on Life of Pi, a great inspirational novel. Though I read 6 novels after that, but Da VINCI is the one I gotta write about...I had to read this book cause of pressure mounted on me by the literary society of internet...I mean wherever be on net, papers ,campus anywhere at all...the only book u here is this...
Finally it got too much and I borrowed this book from my friend yesterday..and tonight I `m sitting here mesmerized and writing review..
Let me give you a brief idea abt the story, which I believe u guys know by now. After all its all over the place...
The protagonist are :
ROBERT LANGDON:A Harvard symbologist
SOPHIE NEVEU: cryptologist with French police
JACQUES SAUNIERE:curator and head of PS also grandpere of sophie
LEIGH TEABING: noted scholar on grail affairs...
Rest of the characters are also important to the story..but will take a lot of my time and energies describing them...
Yeah the MAJOR PROTAGONIST are:::
PRIORY OF SION::A secret society hiding something that could change the fce of the world in general and the Vatican in particular...also was headed by the likes of Sir Isaac Newton,Da Vinci, Victor Hugo..etc
OPUS DEI:The more Prelature and harsh side of Vatican...is supposed to be the more devout and hard side that regularly put Vatican into troubles..
THE VATICAN ITSELF::Headed by the POPE ,whoo does not know the Vatican ..the sole proprietor of Christianity for 2 millennial now...
The story is fast paced and runs through 1 night in Paris and next day in London. its a very powerful story that actually proves that all things in the world are interrelated by one or the other things..every symbol has a meaning and every meaning has a story...very intriguing as the author depicts relationships between very simple and daily objects..through various means..be it a number (PHI),color...even the paintings that u would have seen a no. of times has something to say which u missed in first look..specially the descriptions of Da Vinci`s painting be it MONA LISA and her mysterious smile or the vitrous man or even the Last supper painting which has such a big secret that could change the whole foundations of Christianity...
The story is a large treasure hunt from start,breaking codes ,paintings,lockers and people`s mind to find various results which initself are clues for the next round...phew...
U gotta reaad for urself to feel it...
I dunno how Dan Brown came upon such a topic ...but he sure has done a lot of homework and research....coz many facts are true,many baseless..which could surely lead him to trouble...but for the moment I wonder who is going to direct this movie and who the stars will be..this surely will rake gold at the BO..maybe all the studios are standing outside Browns house at this moment.......though I must admit it did at times get boring coz of the intriguities that the author found in each symbol or painting but nevertheless...A STORY OF A LIFETIME...please book your next weekend with LEO DA VINCI.. ..heheeh njoy..
